Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, special emphasis will be given on areas such as: - The role of central banks and monetary policy - The role of fiscal policy - The conduct of monetary policy under zero bound conditions - The role of, and prospects for, economic growth - The...

DEA2013 plans to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the development of the DEA methodology and its applications to performance management in both public and private sectors. Theoretical and empirical papers on DEA and related fields in efficiency and productivity analysis...

Submitted papers should discuss two aspects around excessive sovereign debt: On one hand we want to diagnose the problems that occur following a serious shortfall on the capacity of a country to pay its debt - such as hindered capacity to pay civil servants' wages, suppliers, pensioners, etc....